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  BBC NEWS | Health | Mobiles 'not brain cancer risk' 

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7229003.stm

  Mobile phone use does not raise the risk of brain tumours, a Japanese study suggests. The research is the first to look at the effects of hand set radiation levels on different parts of the brain. Tokyo ... Women's Medical University found no increased risk of the three main types of brain cancer among regular mobile phone users. The study, comparing 322 brain cancer patients and 683 healthy people, appears in British Journal of Cancer. The cancer patients had one of the three most common types of brain tumour - glioma, meningioma or pituitary adenoma. The researchers rated each subject according to how many years they had been using a mobile phone, and how long they spent talking on it each day. They studied the radiation emitted from various types of mobile phone, and placed them into one of four categories relating to radiation strength. And they also analysied how each phone was likely to affect different areas of the brain. Lead researcher Professor Naohito Yamaguchi said: "Using our   [More...] [Less...]

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  Tags:  brain cancer, brain tumour, cell phone safety, mobile phone safety, radiation